Sentence examples for distant satellite from inspiring English sources

The music places disembodied, altered voices within a sparse, throbbing track that sounds as if it had been bounced off a distant satellite.

In her novel A GAME OF PERFECTION (Edge/Hades, paper, $16.95), Élisabeth Vonarburg returns to the planet Virginia, introduced in her previous novel "Dreams of the Sea" as a distant satellite of the star Altair, settled by humans and embroiled in the same postcolonial conflicts as its earthly namesake.

And after you find a spot in a distant satellite lot you will get on the shuttle to get in line to buy the tickets before joining the feral scrum for a spot in the lodge so you can buckle your child's boots before you buckle your own.

A lonely, distant satellite has captured the very essence of the universe.

A diversified livelihood strategy drawing on the small island environment and its coastal and marine resources, income generating activities in a distant satellite village, and significant remittances from employment in other parts of Indonesia underpinned people's capacities to face hazards.

In addition, our test-trenching approach has detected conspicuous differences in the density of artefacts across the landscape, with a large cluster of archaeological material in and around the main trench, and less intense human activity at the same level in the more distant satellite trenches.

That it shared a border with Quebec heightened a mythos of disconnection: separatism, many feared, would physically disrupt the entire country, severing the Maritimes and Newfoundland into distant satellites of the Great Dominion.

But it is now clear that fully realising those benefits depends on putting systems in place to mitigate against deliberate and accidental interference, and to provide an independent backup that does not rely on the delicate trilling of distant satellites.

However, distant satellites tend to have inclined orbits.

No longer static images, maps have become active interfaces for information exchange, continuously determining where we are in relation to distant satellites and suggesting where we ought to go, says Seth Spielman, a 38-year-old geography professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

I think my favorite Anathema album ever is their new one, Distant Satellites.